The front yard was decorated as our cemetery with the coffin I built last year placed up on the front porch.  We had a microphone controlled grim reaper sitting on top of the with a small fogging cauldron on one side of him and a small flame cauldron on the other side of him.  By speaking into the microphone the skeletons mouth would move and his eyes would blink.  I cut my own audio recording with my voice on the right channel and some noise on the left channel.  I found that this prop was very sensitive to anyone speaking into the microphone.  With the skeleton being so sensitive his mouth did not move much, it just stayed open most of the time.  To fix this problem I recorded a mono track with me blowing a few short bursts of air of different time durations into the microphone.  I edited this mono track to synchronize the blowing sounds with the words on the right channel.  The right channel was connected to a powered speaker and the left channel was connected to the skeleton.  The blowing "popping" sound made his mouth move great and it looked and sounded very realistic.

This year we split the garage into an entrance hallway and 2 different rooms.  When you entered the hallway you were greeted by the count who told you when it was OK to enter the first room.  The first room was a witches den and the second was a dungeon full of dead bodies, body parts and tombstones.

The witch is microphone controlled, you have the options of using either a wireless or wired microphone to make her speak.  When you speak into the microphone your voice comes out her mouth and her mouth moves to the words.  What was nice about this is that we had a friend sit behind the black tarp and talk to the people as they walked past.  She cast many a spell on persons that did not believe in magic that night.

The dungeon had several tombstones and many bloody body parts laying around.  This area also had a mummy in a coffin leaning up against a wall.  This coffin by the way was the full scale model I built last year before building my full sized toe pincher coffin.  We sprayed some black paint on it and put the mummy in.  The best part of this room was the 5 foot burnt body we had laying out on a table.  My wife is a registered nurse so we had her dressed up like a mad surgeon.  She had her scrubs on, her stethoscope on and a big plastic knife in her right hand.  As people came by she would make a carving motion across the burnt body and drop a piece of meat on a plate she had sitting there.  The meat she dropped was hidden in her left hand, this made the carving motion more real.  She would then offer the plate of meat to anyone that was hungry.  The meat was teriyaki beef jerky I had picked up earlier in the day.  We had one person cover their mouth and run out of the garage.  Many of the men were more than happy to try it, they even lived to tell about it.  The kids on the other hand passed on the meat and waited for the candy.